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Throughout my career, I have been fortunate to have maintained close ties with SAFS. In 1990, I graduated from SAFS with a PhD, and found a position with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in Seattle. This gave me the opportunity to witness the impact of SAFS on fisheries science throughout the world over the last 30 years.
As an employee of the Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Science Center in the 1980s, I was assigned to work with Kevin Bailey and Robert (Bob) Francis.

In 1969, I had a degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Michigan, but what I really wanted to do was to go to graduate school and build computer models of marine ecosystems. I interviewed at a number of oceanography departments, and they all turned me down because I didn’t have any undergraduate credits in biology. UW was my last stop.

I graduated from high school in 1939 and enlisted in the Washington National Guard in November of that year. The National Guard was activated in September 1940 and that meant I was on active duty in the Army. I received my Honorable Discharge in October 1945 and was able to attend the UW on the GI Bill. Many ex-service men and women were anxious to continue their education, as I was, and I think there were about 50 students who selected a career in fisheries and enrolled at the UW School of Fisheries.